New paper alert🚨
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Two takeaways. First, 2- to 4-year-olds can use a process called second-order correlation (SOC) learning -- e.g., A & B go together and B & C go together, then A and C go together -- in a category context to make causal inferences.
Second-order correlation learning—or the capacity to infer an indirect relation between features based on separate direct relations—has been studied e…
